Long cast as villains, some protists, such as Blastocystis, are potentially beneficial to human health.

To study how neurons in the paraventricular nucleus translate stress into sleep and memory problems, the researchers put ...

Palaeontologists used ancient molecules to identify a cranium found near Harbin in northeastern China as belonging to the ...

Research ships rarely brave the Greenland Sea in winter. Early this year, scientists ventured into the ice-covered waters to ...

Computer algorithms have designed highly efficient synthetic enzymes from scratch, with minimal need for tedious hands-on ...

As US airports get busier, some are struggling to cope. Ageing technology and bad weather are often blamed for cancelled ...

Experiments suggest moths use the Milky Way to orientate themselves — plus, evidence that humans expanded into new ecosystems ...

There might be a paradox in the biology of ageing. As humans grow older, their metabolisms tend to slow, they lose muscle ...

The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government ...

Although language models can help to accelerate systematic reviews, a fully automated system is still some way off.

Gene therapy has proved to be a safe long-term treatment for haemophilia B. The benefits of a single dose persist for at ...

At last, nearly ten years on, England is taking action. From 1 August, England’s national regulator for higher education, the ...